Regional Cider Museum

Rue du Petit Versailles
50700 VALOGNES

The Regional Cider Museum is located in the "Grand Quartier" House, which is the last building that remains of an edifice built in the 15th century.
Open since 1972, the Museum proposes the richest French collection of the "blond gold of the Normans" in twelve rooms, all situated in a remarkable example of medieval architecture.

The Regional Cider Museum has the goal to conserve and show to the public a representative array of items and tools used for the cider production, reaching from the picking of the fruit to the consumption of the beverage.

Besides the huge oak cider presses and traditional crushing lathe, different apple crushing items can also be seen, as well as containers and implements - "godiâos", "marquis", "moques" and "Dame-Jeannes" - and also items of daily life.

Among these collections a rare and precious series of ancient posters for the promotion and distribution of cider deserves a special mention.

Another particular mention goes to the "Croque-la-Pomme" bed, carved in a cider barrel with naïve and erotic motives in connection with the original sin.